The sixth annual McMaster Innovation Showcase featured the presentation of thirteen awards, recognizing everything from the potential of budding entrepreneurs and their commercial prospects, to a lifetime innovation award.

Theoretical chemist Paul Ayers and theoretical physicist Catherine Kallin were honoured with national awards this week. Ayers was given an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship and Kallin was named a Killam Research Fellow.

Researchers from the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) offer the right 'tools' for industry to improve the performance of the machines in their factories. The payoffs range from reduced costs to greener factories.